Reading Bruce Schneier's post on the new Storm worm was quite scary, even though I already knew about half of what he was saying about it. Seeing the complete description of the power and complexity of this twenty-first century worm was quite scary. With its new networking and distribution capabilities, Storm is virtually untraceable and invulnerable to anti-virus.

Why am I worried?

Although my computer and I are at little danger from this worm, primarily since I don't open emails with obvious subject lines like that, I am worried about what Bruce is calling Phase II. The time when the creators of the worm actually decide to do something with it. Since it likely has infected at least 1 million computers the total processing power behind the entire group of bots is monstrous. I fear that storm is just the beginning of worms that will take advantages of the complex networks and interconnectedness of the new Web 2.0 era.